Atomic number 31

Bizarre stuff

If you handle the metal,

extremely fine droplets

of liquid gallium wet your skin.

This kind of thing, bizarre

and independent, does not exist

in our normal experience.

Gallium was the first element that was discovered with a spectroscope
but was not named after its color.
Although “gallus” is Latin for rooster (“le coq” in French),
Lecoq declared that he named gallium after “Gallia,” the Latin name for Gaul (that is, France).